Several pieces of malware I’ve been investigating lately are spambots, tools that turn your computer into a source of spam for the folks running such operations. This one I got this morning first looked like a Nurech spambot, but it turned out to be a simple downloader. Standard-type lure, this one claimed to be from [...]
One things I built for myself a number of years ago is Infosec Daily, an information security news aggregation site. I had to keep abreast of sites and topics and I found that it was easier to build an application to do it than to keep trying to dig up the latest story when I [...]
In the past couple of days, between some development work and analyzing yesterday’s Nurech spam incidents (downloader that grabs a BHO that installs a DLL, ipv6monl.dll, and snarfs your banking info, seems to target German users more than anything …), I threw a bunch of blogs into my RSS reader. I need to keep abreast [...]